Software Reengineering; Empirical Software Engineering; Information Seeking in Software Engineering, Source Code analysis

Jim Buckley obtained an upper 2:1 Honours, BSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Galway in 1989. In 1994 he was awarded an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Limerick and he followed this with a PhD in Computer Science from the same University in 2002. He currently works as a Professor in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department.

He is a Principal Investigator in Lero and was the original Director of the TREES (Trustworthy, Responsible, Efficient Engineering of Software) centre of excellence within Lero: a €6 million centre funded entirely by industry.

He also currently leads three research teams within Lero, looking at clone detection in really large systems, architecture recovery of Deep Learning Environments like TensorFlow, and using AI to generate source code, that last project being a result of a Research Impact award he received from Lero. 

But he has also worked in software comprehension, programmer information seeking, software architecture consistency and feature location: the task of identifying where in the source code a specified functionality of the system is implemented.

For a full list of Jim’s publications, please go to: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Zd9NJ9sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao